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the hash is back in town

No, not from Mexico. The beloved "# !" combo on the site template is now available in your user options.

I've made some changes to the pop bar on sites, nothing major but hopefully a little better looking.

I'm working on some pretty neat stuff to clean up YTMND a bit, if you are interested, read more.

First off, I'm working on a pretty thorough dupe account checker. It's already caught quite a few members. I've decided to change the dupe account policy. If you have 1 extra account I will most likely do nothing. If you have more than 2, a few things will happen. You will be posted to the new "wall of shame", this includes your email address, and your password will be reset and posted as well. Anyone can log in to your account and do whatever they want (except change the password). Your username will be pink everywhere it is posted on the site. Ultimately, 48 hours later, all of your accounts will be deleted. I may leave the option of keeping a single account, but with all of the vandalization that will most likely occur, it probably wont be worth it.

Next I'm working on some features to keep people from voting on sites before they have seen them. It will make it a lot harder to down-vote or up-vote all of a users sites or the front page. I may be able to remove votes made in this way from the past but I can't tell yet.

On another note, please stop taking this site so seriously. I know it can get competitive at times, but you guys seriously need to chill on the hate.

Seems like some good ideas. Wall of Shame does seem pretty harsh, except if you have like 5 accounts or something. Please work on fixing the Top 15 Viewed into a more workable and less consistently awful solution.

"Next I'm working on some features to keep people from voting on sites before they have seen them. It will make it a lot harder to down-vote or up-vote all of a users sites or the front page." qf great justice

I think that the multiple account thing may be too harsh. At least, the e-mail part. It could be considered as identity theft, seeing as you are posing as another user. Just to keep you out of legal trouble!

What waziot said earlier. I had an acount about a year ago, but lost the password, and I signed my friend up a couple of months ago.. but I dont know the passwords for them.. would You be able to delete those me get in trouble?

the wall of shame is just screaming 'bad idea'. Everyone can get access to these accounts, even other downvoters. All your doing is giving them even MORE accounts to downvote with. They don't even have to create accounts, there will be so many just freely available through the wall of shame. Plus, if there's a site that someone REALLY doesn't like, they could log into all of them and downvote it.

um, can't you just delete any extra accounts the second they're made or something? i mean, firstly, my email address is OLD, and that wouldn't really be fair. Secondly, nobody is going to want to join a site that their password could be swiped off. what if they use that password for everything?

"You will be posted to the new "wall of shame", this includes your email address, and your password will be reset and posted as well. Anyone can log in to your account and do whatever they want" HOLY F*CKING LAWL. HAHAHAHAHHAHA. :D :D :D

"Plus, if there's a site that someone REALLY doesn't like, they could log into all of
them and downvote it." That is why the account gets deleted after 2 days, and those votes get deleted, hence nothing bad. (also, max could just disable voting with those accounts) Are you people retarded or something? Learn to read.

107th, also I CANNOT WAIT for the wall of shame. post people with 2 accounts, too. seriously, a lot of people here simply play by the rules and we deserve to be able to have a little fun with people who think they've defeated the system

"On another note, please stop taking this site so seriously. I know it can get competitive at times, but you guys seriously need to chill on the hate."
So that's why you put up a wall of shame for us to harass other people? Seems logical.

Max.. I think what you're doing is a great idea, but legally I don't think I'd release people's passwords and e-mail. Alot of people use their same password for e-mail as they would here, so that's leading towards a world of hurt. Maybe, say, revert it to some default password instead!! Same result, less problems.

my point by even bringing up the feature is that deleting a user obviously isnt enough. there are still tons of people making dupe accounts if the site matters that much to them, shaming them is the only way i can think of to dissuade them in the first place.

Max, thanks for loaning me that penny, which nudged the front page sponsorship amount of INFERNO to $6.66 .... :D ! Didn't make a lick of difference as far as views, but what the hey. Thanks for the loan.

Also, since you seem too lazy to fix the utterly broken Top 15 Viewed system, at least up the rating threshold to something more reasonable like 3.5 instead of the current 2.4. When less than a third of all voting YTMNDers don't enjoy a site, I think it's fair to say it does not deserve to be seen by thousands of people each day.

I love the # !. Glad it's an option (and only an option, so that non-users can still close the browser window when they see the logo, before they get ninja-link-pranked by loldialup or a Daltonofzeal ;) ).

Alright I read the news and all the comments, here is what I think. Downvoting/Upvoting is a problem, but the wall of shame is too extreme, will lead to more hate & anger and might cause a lot of good ytmnds to be destroyed. Also personal emails would be EXTREMELY against policy. I think the wall of shame is one thing ytmnd does not need. Too extreme, to much hate, will wreck the site. The return of # ! is welcomed! But I hate the gray colour of the ytmnd bar now, make it white again please!

^^^ Excellent Point... Whats stopping people from using the Wall of Shame accounts for mass up/down voting. Also a bet a lot of users with great sites have a couple accounts, having their sites get destroyed will just destroy good site content. Not fix any problems, Wall of Shame will honestly create more.

IMO the Wall of Shame is not in the least extreme. People are ruining the site for us non-cheaters by making accounts to vote things so that some get more representation than others. The Wall of Shame will highly discourage this. Afterall, those multi-account kiddies don't want their Runescape accounts in danger.

Max, it sounds like you are saying you are allowing people to have 2 accounts.... that cant be right, can it? Alts are just used for making trouble without repercusions to the original user name or used for cheating. Delete all alts, and give the original a long term ban. just my opinion,

I love the "wall of shame" idea. I get giddy just thinking about it. I want you to know however, that that "alt account" honestly was my sister's. You see, we lower-middle class types often share an IP.

Max, there's a glitch with the "Top5" page. It's stuck on an update from yesterday. It's alternating between 2 old updates. ( You'll notice "Vocabulary..." stuck at 5 stars, and "Xenosaga I: Last Battle" with a similar high score.) It's still showing 0 views for sites made yesterday, and the Ronald/McFly & Mickey sites are nowhere to be seen. Look at it & see what I mean.

i have a good idea aswell, why not delete all the crap stites that go against the "Expect your site to be deleted if it lacks humor and includes any of the following: anime, extreme racism, hardcore pornography, anything illegal, pictures of your friends, inside jokes, etc" rule. that would definatly make the servers faster.

Max, I don't like that down/upvote thing. Sometimes there are 5 sites on up/upcoming, but when I check the stats it's a 3 site. I don't want to give it siteviews, so I just downvote them to keep crap sites from the top 15

Max, before you go ahead with the user name and password reveal, you should be careful about laws concerning Phising and exposing passwords for user names and handles. You could be held liable for people using their same handles and passwords for emails, and paypals, and bank accounts...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

1) Corevirus, the #! is optional now. 2) Maybe you should only be allowed to vote if you leave a comment; that'll at least stop aninymous downvoting. 3) I had no idea that being too SERIOUS on YTMND was ever a problem. 4) You can make two good YTMND's in less than 15 minutes, if you have the images and soundfiles prepared in advance. 5) Onion donuts FTW

Great to see all these new improvements Max. But as a lot of users have been saying, I don't like the new grey 'pop bar', I think it looks alot less cleaner, keep it white please. Great job overall though.

Nice work max, incase it hasn't already been reported, there is a bug in user options where clicking "Use traditional "# !" layout on sites" (text not checkbox) selects/diselects "Use the preloader where available" YTMNDFTW

I have the feeling dozens of good users will be deleted because of sharing computers in college dorms/ etc. You just do what you did in the past, let the multi acount users choose the one or two acounts they wish to keep, while in the future prevent people with same IP from making new acounts.

BTW, might want to take your privacy policy into account as well (even though as of now it doesn't work). "We do not share your information with other companies and will never send you an unsolicited email after the confirmation.
This is purely for confirmation purposes. For more information, see our privacy policy."

"Next I'm working on some features to keep people from voting on sites before they have seen them. It will make it a lot harder to down-vote or up-vote all of a users sites or the front page. I may be able to remove votes made in this way from the past but I can't tell yet." Worst. Idea. Ever.